Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Museums and their bountiful collections are research bastions. Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images On a cool February morning ...

Metrology can be widely defined as the science of measurement, with roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. There was a growing desire by intellectuals, industry, and governments to standardize the ...

A nanogram (ng) is a unit of mass in the metric system, equal to one billionth (10-9) of a gram (g). The gram is a base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), making the nanogram a ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...

GUILDFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LGC Group, a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and analytical solutions, today officially opened its new state-of-the-art National Laboratories facility ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno swept eastward across the harbor district, consuming ...